We made the decision to cancel the festival.

The deteriorating health situation in recent weeks and the uncertainty of being able to conduct the festival as we would like to share it with you, as well as the heavy moral responsibility of organizing an event with an audience in the conditions we are currently experiencing, pushed us to make this difficult decision.

We will try to find new channels, new ideas in order to present you the works selected for this 12th edition.
We may need to give time to time, but when we meet again it will be to celebrate !

We would especially like to thank the directors.rices for their great patience and understanding, the whole volunteer team of the festival, our partners, as well as our sponsors.

The Fidé team

That’s it ! We are pleased to announce the new dates of the 12th edition of FIDÉ ! SEPTEMBER 18-19-20, 2020, at Le Shakirail !

The FIDÉ is going out of the confinement. Following an invitation from Le Shakirail, we’re back for an outdoor screening on Friday, June 19.
On the program are two documentaries that will put you in a good mood : the sound work Single Suspect by Julia Faure and the film Trash Rebel by Sara Porqueddu.

All information : https://www.facebook.com/events/977243366029967/

Our Patrons of the Documentary Blog have put online for a week one of the three films they awarded at the last edition of the Fidé in 2019. After “J’suis pas malheureuse” by Laïs Decaster and “Je ferai tout disparaître” by Margaux Chataux, it is the turn of the film Azadi by Sam Peeters.

The technical mastery of the film is entirely subject to its narrative, while ideally serving as a description of the tragic situation of some refugees in a transit zone in Lesbos (the Moria camp) that acts as a veritable purgatory. Magisterial moments punctuate the film : an immersive sea shot as a prologue, testimonies of refugees with painful liabilities that are hard to imagine or of Greek fishermen who rescued them, piles of life jackets (reminiscent of Nazi death camps) and wrecks, epitaphs (often anonymous) in a cemetery… Passages of morality that may be questionable for some of the speakers also testify to the geopolitical complexity of our world (“Keep them your beautiful principles !”). I don’t have the means to do so ! “) : a refugee denounces other refugees to the authorities to save them from certain death, an old lady helps refugees on her island in the hope of helping Greece win a Nobel Prize and contribute to bringing her country out of a crisis that has lasted too long… These moments say a lot about the “bankruptcy” of our technocratic world and its narrow-minded cruelty. However, the real stakes of the film rest on its protagonist, Gulfam, a “veteran” of the pains of the world and with Hugolian accents, whom the director tends to mythologize in order to better sensitize us paradoxically to a reality that we may no longer want to see (to avoid being confronted with it)… When the documentary uses a fictional process as a last resort for our empathy, our anchoring to reality wavers… (Derek Woolfenden)

To watch the movie, it’s HERE.

❌ CANCELLATION ❌
We inform you that the 12th edition of the Fidé – scheduled to take place from April 22 to 26 – is cancelled.
This decision is linked to and follows on from the obligations and health precautions that have been set and taken by the government.
The Shakirail is closed to the public.
If a postponement is possible in another schedule, we will let you know.
We invite you to follow our next news via our website and social networks.
Fidé’s Team

The students of the FIDÉ programming workshop present, in partnership with the Docfilmdépôt platform, an evening screening of 3 documentaries in the presence of the directors !

The event will take place at the Shakirail (72 Rue Riquet, Riquet metro)
Sunday, March 1st. Doors open, 7pm
Bar and small catering on the spot, as usual ! 😌

PROGRAMMING :

♢ Voices from within, by Elina Chared
France, 2019, 25′
“I’m a borderline bipolar who hears voices,” says Marianne. This fascinating woman, with her sometimes lost gaze, plunges us into the intimacy of her relationship with what she calls her “voices”. Auditory hallucinations, warning signal or form of consciousness ? One can only admire Marianne’s willingness to show us here the strategies to adopt when these manifest themselves.
[Camille Duranton]

♢ A heritage lodge, by Romain Vallée
France, 2019, 17′
A legacy lodge carries the promise of its title. Romain Vallée suggests that we accompany Elisabeth, a courageous and independent woman in her thirties, when she leaves the casinos to take over the lodge from her mother and grandmother. Contrary to the projections on personal fulfilment through work, the film focuses on Elisabeth’s discourse on the value, the dignity she gives to her place (because the boundary between her work and her social place is thin), and the assumed choice that this radical change of life has been. Romain Vallée contributes to making her a film character by placing her in lively yet sparsely inhabited spaces, whose richness and felting are in themselves already a staging, and to which the subsoil and its machinery, also rich in life, respond. Transmission and filial relationships are at the heart of the second half of the film, which mischievously renders the subtlety of the power relations linked to this transmission, to the point of sharing an eternal youth, thanks to Cloclo .
[Angela Meschin]

Int. Anouchka-Night, by Louise Hansenne
Belgium, 2019, 20′
Anouchka smokes, Anouchka drinks, Anouchka is a screenwriter and it is through the writing of an auto-fiction that she reveals to us the hows and whys of her addictions. Fiction and reality are then mixed in a touching story where two heroines, alcoholic and depressive, fight to follow fragile dreams. What will be the end of the scenario, will there be one ? Anouchka seems to be looking for other answers…
[Camille Duranton]

As part of “Le Mois du film documentaire“, FIDÉ – Festival international du documentaire émergent, in collaboration with the Curry Vavart collective and the Archvio di Cinema del Reale, welcomes Cecilia Mangini and her accomplice, the documentary filmmaker Paolo Pisanelli, for a friendly screening and meeting.

Cecilia Mangini, born in 1927 in Mola di Bari, is a documentary filmmaker and photographer who from the beginning has taken a committed, attentive and personal look at the individual and society, with a particular focus on the themes of marginality and social injustice.
The first woman in Italy to shoot documentaries in the post-war period, author of a few feature films and more than forty short films, she was able to highlight the complex transition of her country, which was sometimes slowly moving away from fascism, towards an industrial society.

Programme
🔸Maria e i giorni (Maria and the days), Italy, 1959, 10′, vostfr
🔸Stendali’, Italy, 1959,11′, vostfr
🔸La canta delle marane (The song of the swamps), Italy, 1961, 10′, vostfr
🔸Un viaggio a Lipari (A trip to Lipari) by Paolo Pisanelli, Italy, 2015, 7′, vostfr

Practical informations
Sunday, November 17 at 7:30 pm at Shakirail, 72 Riquet Street, 18th.
Reception of the public from 19h00. Bar and snacks on site.

 

Find the documentary “Je ferai tout disparaître” by Margaux Chataux, winner of the patron’ Award Le Blog Documentaire.
Her film is available for a week on their website.

Watch thanks to our patrons from Blog documentaire the beautiful documentary of Laïs Decaster “J’suis pas malheureuse”.

Click here